OOC: which would be his dilemma: stay and fight in the tournament and increase their chances of securing the Staff of Masks for Ekimu or drop out of the tournament and search with Sun for the Mask of Light.

Also, I’m fairly certain Echo came in as Tekan was being beaten by 44, not being choked just yet but he lost his scythe pretty soon after, so Echo basically saw Tekan being attacked by 2 others, losing and then attacked suspected Tekan was the aggressor.... which was confirmed for him pretty soon after when Sun started acting up... so good choice for him... that time.